InvalidBasesError: Cannot resolve bases for [<ModelState: 'users.GroupProxy'>]

python django unit-testing django-models django-migrations
Dmitrii Mikhailov picture Dmitrii Mikhailov · May 15, 2015 · Viewed 15k times · Source

When I run tests I get this error during database initialization:

django.db.migrations.state.InvalidBasesError: Cannot resolve bases for [<ModelState: 'users.GroupProxy'>]
This can happen if you are inheriting models from an app with migrations (e.g. contrib.auth)

I created this proxy for contrib.auth Group model to place it in my app in django admin:

class GroupProxy(Group):
    class Meta:
        proxy = True
        verbose_name = Group._meta.verbose_name
        verbose_name_plural = Group._meta.verbose_name_plural

So what can I do to fix this issue?

Answer

dlsso picture dlsso · Jul 30, 2015

After a lot of digging on this the only thing that worked for me was

comment out the offending apps, run migrations, then add them in again.

Just a workaround but hopefully it helps somebody.

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